If you can make space for a miniature rock garden — one of tiny plants growing within the confines of a faux-stone trough — the promise of an outsize payoff awaits. Inside the walls of a trough, you ...

Alpine plants are the jewels of the plant world. Beautiful but small, these plants grow best in a habitat that most resembles their native one. Most are at home nestled between rocky crags. No rocky ...

Where: Betty Ford Alpine Gardens Education Center, Vail. When: Monday, June 5, 11 a.m. Cost: $5 suggested donation. More information: Visit http://www ...

Miniature worlds — snow globes or Lego villages — wield a special kind of magic. They lure you into a mesmerizing universe where everything feels right and where you, the all-powerful creator, get to ...

THERE’S NO BETTER time to create your own tiny, perfect world than when the real world feels like it’s out of control. Unsurprisingly, alpine troughs are having a moment. Designed to look like ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... At Denver Botanic Gardens, Wildflower Treasures is neither as splashy as the water-lily pond nor as refined as the Japanese garden. The sun-soaked hardscape ...

Many gardeners, myself included, often bemoan the fact that we do not have enough ground to grow all the varieties of plants known to the kingdom. I have found, however, big rewards in cultivating ...

The urban location of this much-admired plantsman's garden - close to Alresford town centre - makes it all the more astonishing. The extensive collection of alpines includes the National Collection of ...